Burdock is large: a medicinal plant with unique medicinal properties

Burdock is large, called in the people burdock - widespread in the middle band weed plant , often reaching a height of one and a half or more meters. It grows near human habitation - in kitchen gardens, along fences and roads, in fields, wastelands and meadows. Its large, up to half a meter in length, green leaves on long petioles from below have a grayish color and are covered with small villi - they are pubescent. The flowers of the plant are small, purple-violet. After blossoming in them ripen fruits - achenes, equipped with a short crest. These tiny seeds cling to the clothing of people passing by or animal hair - so they can be transported over considerable distances. Despite its almost universal prevalence, unpretentiousness and "weediness", Lopukh has a lot of useful qualities and has long been used in folk medicine.

Curative properties have all parts of the plant - roots, leaves, fruits. However, most often burdock roots are used - thick, spindle-shaped, growing to a length of up to 60 cm. They are used to make extracts, infusions and broths or make them burdock oil, soaking their pieces in olive, peach or refined sunflower oil. In the roots of the plant contains inulin (polysaccharide), as well as essential oils, proteins, tannins , etc., and in its flowers glycosides are found.

Burdock is a great used for the treatment of skin diseases, rheumatism, gout. In these cases, combine the reception of the decoction or infusion inside with its external use in the form of compresses, lotions, rubs. With diabetes, traditional healers recommend taking three times a day a decoction of its crushed root (20 grams per glass of water). The reception of this remedy is shown to those who suffer from kidney stone disease, chronic constipation, as well as gastritis and peptic ulcer. It has a mild laxative, choleretic, diaphoretic effect.

For the preparation of broths or infusions, it is necessary to harvest the roots of the first year, two-year-olds, due to the increased content of tannins in them, have the opposite effect and can cause constipation. Another advice of traditional medicine: with gastritis you need to eat every day 3-5 small young roots of burdock - only necessarily freshly dug! In a few hours they lose their healing properties. The course of treatment lasts 3-4 weeks. Before you try this method of treatment on yourself, especially in the case of chronic, chronic gastritis, be sure to consult a doctor.

With all these diseases, you can take and fresh juice of burdock. If you believe the reviews, it helps to normalize blood sugar, in addition, it improves the condition with gastrointestinal diseases, allergies, painful periods. Admission of this tool contributes to the normalization of the menstrual cycle. In folk medicine it has traditionally been used in the treatment of infertility. At the same time, it is contraindicated for pregnant and lactating women.

Juice of burdock, the use of which is shown in the treatment of cold, in this case it is necessary to mix with honey (for 50 g of juice - 0.5 hp honey). It promotes the healing of trophic ulcers: to do this, moistened in a juice gauze napkin attached to them from above.

Young leaves of burdock have bactericidal and antipyretic properties. They are applied to the forehead during fever, to the breast with mastitis, they are placed on the affected area with erysipelas, and on the joints - with gout, arthritis and rheumatism. During the day, the leaves need to be changed periodically.

Burdock oil rubs into the roots of hair with seborrhea, hair loss. They also lubricate the skin with eczema and dermatitis. The curative effect will intensify if you first apply a compress with the decoction of burdock roots.

Burdock is large, thus, is a useful medicinal plant, which has a complex effect on the body. Its use (in the form of infusion, broth, etc.) can be recommended for adults and children alike. The only contraindication to such treatment, in addition to pregnancy and lactation, is individual intolerance, the possibility of which should not be discounted.